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The EpicureanFriends Files section is where our Level 3 and above participants store longer documents created offsite which are of special interest to the study of Epicurus. You can use the "Categories" box on the right to find specific sections of the library.

The Life of Epíkouros
- Eikadistes
- May 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New This is my personal translation of Diogénēs Laértious' historical biography The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 10: The Life of Epíkouros. This is an evolving project. I will continue making edits on twentiers.com/biography.
- 2
- 1 Download
David Sedley - The Ethics of Brutus and Cassius
- Cassius
- April 12, 2022 at 5:12 PM
Discussion of the philosophical underpinnings (Epicurean, Platonist, and Stoic) of the Assassination of Julius Caesar
- 2
- 6 Downloads
Joshua's Reading of The Torquatus Narrative of Epicurean Ethics - From Cicero's "On Ends"
- Cassius
- January 27, 2022 at 9:02 AM
One of the best summaries of Epicurean Philosophy available anywhere.
- 1
- 8 Downloads
Epicurus's Letter to Menoikeus - A New Translation with Commentary
- Don
- July 19, 2023 at 11:25 PM
An in-depth translation and commentary of Epicurus's Letter to Menoikeus.
- 2
- 115 Downloads
Tyndal - Address at Belfast
- Cassius
- November 1, 2021 at 8:05 PM
TXT version of file for cleanup for use in text-to-speech engines
- 0 Downloads
KURIAI DOXAI, a Compilation of Translations by Nathan H. Bartman (2021)
- Eikadistes
- May 3, 2024 at 11:14 PM
This compilation contains 150 years worth of English translations of the "Key Doctrines" of Epicurus.
- 1
- 126 Downloads
Diskin Clay - A Brief Memoir for Angelo Casanova (regarding Oinoanda)
- Cassius
- January 23, 2021 at 3:40 PM
This is a document sent to me by Diskin Clay in 2013
- 7 Downloads
A Lost Epicurean Community - By Diskin Clay
- Cassius
- January 23, 2021 at 3:23 PM
A Lost Epicurean Community - By Diskin Clay
- 1
- 20 Downloads
Lucretius' Translation of Greek Philosophy - By Diskin Clay
- Cassius
- January 23, 2021 at 3:20 PM
Lucretius' Translation of Greek Philosophy - By Diskin Clay
- 94 Downloads
L.P. Wilkinson: Philodemus On Ethos In Music
- Cassius
- May 26, 2019 at 5:46 PM
Philodemus On Ethos In Music
- 7 Downloads
On Nature Book 28 - Reconstruction By David Sedley - 1973 Article
- Cassius
- April 15, 2019 at 10:55 AM
Sedley reconstruction of fragments from Book 28
- 6 Downloads
Riley - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates
- Cassius
- January 10, 2018 at 4:17 PM
Details of the Epicurean Criticism of Socrates for his character and method of teaching.
- 14 Downloads
Cicero - On Ends - Rackham translation
- Cassius
- November 24, 2017 at 10:16 AM
Book One of this text, devoted to discussion of Epicurean Philosophy, is a very important source of information on ancient Epicureanism.
- 12 Downloads
History of Philosophy - Fifth Part - Thomas Stanley's Translation of Gassendi's Life and Doctrines of Epicurus
- Cassius
- November 24, 2017 at 10:11 AM
This text is the best available English translation of the Life and Doctrines of Epicurus by Pierre Gassendi
- 16 Downloads
The Greek Atomists and Epicurus - Cyril Bailey
- Cassius
- November 24, 2017 at 10:08 AM
A History of Atomism Up To And Including Epicurus
- 14 Downloads
Epicurus - The Extant Remains - Cyril Bailey - Oxford - 1926
- Cassius
- November 24, 2017 at 10:04 AM
As of 2017, probably still the best and most complete collection of core Epicurean texts freely available on the internet.
- 17 Downloads
"Organization and Procedure in Epicurean Groups" - Norman DeWitt - 1936
- Cassius
- November 22, 2017 at 8:29 AM
DeWitt's summary of what is known about organization and procedure in ancient Epicurean Groups as published in the July 1936 edition of Classical Philology.
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- 39 Downloads